NCF Tuesday: Amazon E-book Lending; Writing Contests; Break-Up Quotes
News
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Amazon
the New Library?
Lauren Hazard Owen with paidContent
covers the early stage of Amazon’s venture into e-book lending. Similar to
Netflix and a library, the service would be made available to their Prime
members. The venture leaves more questions than answers at this point.
Do you think e-book lending through Amazon will
create problems?
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Interview
with Haruki Murakami
Enjoy Haruki Murakami’s interview as The
New Yorker’s fiction editor discusses his novel 1Q84 (hitting U.S. shelves in late October) and the excerpt, “Town
of Cats,” available online and in print.
The setting of 1Q84 is 1984,
and Murakami struggled with the lack of technology. Have you faced similar
challenges when dealing with settings in your stories?
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Vintage
Dust Jackets
Check out these vintage dust jackets for novelists Virginia Woolf,
William Faulkner, J.D. Salinger, etc.
Which one is your favorite?
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New
Yorker Festival-Sept. 30-Oct. 2
Nate Freeman gives readers
the writer and celebrity pair-ups at the 2011 New Yorker Festival coming up at the end of September.
Which pair would you like to see?
Contests
FICTION
Glimmer Train Literary Journal
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Fiction Open; 2,000-20,000
words
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First Place
Prize: $2,000, publication in Glimmer
Train Stories, and 20 copies of that issue
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Deadline: Sept
30, 2011
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Details here
Writer’s Digest Magazine
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Short Short
Writing Competition
o Fiction: 1,500 words or less
o First Place Prize: $3,000 and a trip to the Writer’s Digest Conference
o Deadline: November 15, 2011
o Details here
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5-Minute
Memoir, “Tales From the Writing Life”
o Personal Essay (600 words or less)
o Prize: Publication in Writer’s Digest magazine
o Deadline: Rolling submissions
Zoetrope All-Story Magazine
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Fifteenth
Annual All-Story Short Fiction Contest: 5,000 words or less
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First Place
Prize: $1,000, online publication and possible representation
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Deadline:
October 3, 2011
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Details here
POETRY
Writer’s Digest Magazine
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7th
Annual Poetry Awards Competition
o Poetry: 32 lines or less
o First Place Prize: $1,500 and a trip to the Writer’s Digest Conference
o Deadline: December 1, 2011
o Details here
Fun
Peruse the break-up quotes
from famous literary works. Enjoy!
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